Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evidently the Wellesley girl is a sort of golden mean. Students are familiar with the studious Vassar girl, the social Smith type, and the athletic maiden of Bryn Mawr. Perhaps the explanation for the number of letters which travel from Harvard to Wellesley every day is explained by the fact that the Wellesley girl is near at hand. Or perhaps she is, as has been suggested above, the happy combination of the qualities of students at the three other leading feminine colleges of the north...
...most-malignant form. The condition in the east has reached the decadent stage, while in the mid-west the cloud of pessimism has not yet obscured the glory of football and all that it connotes. The explanation of this phenomenon seems to Mr. Tunis to be merely the fact that the student in the eastern college is more mature and grown-up than his western confrere...
...Soares's further suggestion that College courses should actually be linked with particular activities and the problems encountered in the field be elucidated in the class room even less enthusiasm may be felt. It is not the fact that the college newspaper teaches journalism or the Dramatic Club acting that makes them valuable; it is the fact that they afford some little contact with the problems of doing things in general. And on the other hand the more contemplative training of the class room can only furnish a general background of knowledge the immediate and specific application of which...
...draw your attention to the fact that a committee exists which aims at performing just that function and moreover provides the books it recommends. The Library Committee of the Harvard Union meets every month and makes a selection from, the current literature of every kind and the books selected are added to the library. The constitution of the committee, which is representative of the Faculty, the Tutors, and the Undergraduates, ensures a catholicity of taste, and the aim of the committee has always been to meet the needs of the present generation of students, as well as to assemble...
What is the difference between a socialist and a communist? The Vagabond is not asking a conundrum, he is raising a perfectly serious question the exact answer of which puzzles him. Aside from the fact that one associates a socialist with studio teas and a communist with bombs and whiskers, is there any real distinction between the two? Are socialists just communists who bathe regularly? These are all points which , frankly, confuse the Vagabond, and as he feels both these terms he is attending Professor Holcombe's lecture on "Socialism and Communism" at nine o'clock this morning...